"I say when you get into a war, you should win as quick as you can, because your losses become a function of the duration of the war. I believe when you get in a war, get everything you need and win it."

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

#War Quotes #Believe Quotes #Loss Quotes

“To write about history or language is supposed to be within the reach of every man. To write about natural science is allowed to be within the reach only of those who have mastered the subjects on which they write.”

Source : Edward Augustus Freeman (1886). “The Methods of Historical Study: Eight Lectures Read in the University of Oxford In...1884, with the Inaugural Lecture on The Office of the Historical Professor”
“It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the expression in concrete form of their notions of reality. Like him, they deal with the verities of time and space, life and death, and the heights of exaltation as well as the depths of despair. The preoccupation with these eternal problems creates a common ground which transcends the disparity in the means used to achieve them.”

Source : Mark Rothko, Christopher Rothko (2006). “The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art”, p.21, Yale University Press
“Love . . . [is] a lack of personal selfishness.”
“I don't want to be the biggest or the best, I want to be faithful.”
“Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.”
“Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I've played so many shows in Colorado that I think I'm the Colorado house band.”
“God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.”
“There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind”

You may also like:

Douglas MacArthur
Military Officer
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd U.S. President
George S. Patton
Military Commander
Gerald R. Ford
38th U.S. President
Harry S. Truman
33rd U.S. President
John F. Kennedy
35th U.S. President
Lyndon B. Johnson
36th U.S. President
Richard M. Nixon
37th U.S. President
Ronald Reagan
40th U.S. President